Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Quotations
Music
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.
-Don Piper
"90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life"
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
-Jimi Hendrix
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
Music is the strongest form of magic.
-Marilyn Monroe
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.
-John Borrowman
I tried to look at writing a song almost like solving a mystery. The song was there, buried somewhere in my brain. All I had to do was follow the clues until I figured it out.
-Jon Skovron
"Struts & Frets"
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
